top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-29

American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

https://aasm.org/american-academy-of-sleep-medicine-calls-for-elimination-of-daylight-saving-time/

5 years ago

1600 upvotes – 486 comments

I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-thought-i-would-have-accomplished-a-lot-more-today-and-also-by-the-time-i-was-thirty-five

5 years ago

1383 upvotes – 668 comments

Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps

https://hackerone.com/reports/783877

5 years ago

510 upvotes – 196 comments

Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox

http://www.flexboxdefense.com/

5 years ago

465 upvotes – 47 comments

Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation

https://www.wsj.com/articles/one-of-the-brains-behind-tesla-found-a-new-way-to-make-electric-cars-cheaper-11598673630

5 years ago

421 upvotes – 272 comments

Life Is Short (2016)

http://paulgraham.com/vb.html

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 164 comments

Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your customers

https://twitter.com/getify/status/1299569045348454401

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 194 comments

The Legend of GayBlade

https://blog.archive.org/2020/08/28/the-legend-of-gayblade/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 123 comments

Metcalf Sniper Attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 161 comments

DearPyGui

https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 71 comments

Pinterest cancels office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Pinterest-cancels-huge-SF-office-lease-in-unbuilt-15523170.php

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 147 comments

Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/sendgrid-under-siege-from-hacked-accounts/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 146 comments

Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-quantum-paradox-throws-the-foundations-of-observed-reality-into-question

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 152 comments

Literate DevOps

http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 87 comments

Unusual Maps

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002yI

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 19 comments

Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fight against hate speech

https://time.com/5883993/india-facebook-hate-speech-bjp/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 95 comments

Low-level details of the Zen 2 microarchitecture [pdf]

https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 13 comments

Open Source Thinkpad T420 Battery Design

https://github.com/iam4722202468/ThinkpadBattery

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 100 comments

Super Tux Kart – Linux racing game

https://supertuxkart.net/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 66 comments

Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

https://gizmodo.com/the-tech-my-dad-banned-from-our-house-1844777825

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 261 comments
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